Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

by Laura J. Snyder

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On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek--a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher--gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Johannes Vermeer was using another optical device, a camera obscura, to experiment with light and create the most luminous pictures...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0393352889

ISBN13:9780393352887

Release Date:May 2016

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:448 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"

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